S02E17 (#327). The President of Iceland. A linkshow featuring articles about how certain features of e-commerce sites have to go, and how a design mistake impacted civic engagement in Iceland.
Where do you guys get your design inspiration from these days? I’m especially interested in #web and #app design. I used to use Dribbble a lot in the past, but it seems to have shifted towards illustrative content and there’s just a lot to sift through before finding something in my niche. 🤔
Sketch Friday is here! I need to trace some of these. Been doing sketches and leaving the vectors to others, cheating myself of the Inkscape pleasures.
Fontsource.org - It includes most (all?) #GoogleFonts & some other #OpenSource#Fonts as well. All available for download/self-hosting.
One thing that drives me nuts abt GF is it SUCKS ASS at filtering. Fontsource's UI is way better for narrowing down fonts, so it's MUCH better for searching.
It's also really pretty! A very well designed UI that makes me enjoy browsing. Super stoked about this :)
Added a few more little widgets to finish the model.
I think this time I'm going to export the model to Blender for rendering with Cycles. MagicaCSG includes a great path tracing renderer, but it lacks textures.
Ugh, an intensive day with too much sitting, fully immersed in circuit work.
The ramp up with #KiCad tools was very smooth. I didn't find any roadblocks in #schematic capture, part coding, #PCB layout, nor cleaning up DRCs. The tools have come a long way since my last use in 2021! Pleased!
A scan through manufacturability tomorrow and the full cycle is complete. Yay #FOSS.
Completed a full design cycle with #KiCad today. Generated the "final" gerbers and drill files about six times, as one does as you keep coming up with little changes (forgot mounting holes!) But the CAM side was very smooth and easy. All around happy with the tool and result.
Zipped up files and trying #PCBWay as vendor this time. I see it's about 3x the cost of my last order with them (in 2020). Both manufacturing cost and shipping are steeper now. :(